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The Civil Procedure Act 1997 (Amendment) Order 2017

S.I. 2017/1148 · Made 22 November 2017

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Senior Courts Of England And Wales

County Court, England And Wales

Made 22nd November 2017

Laid before Parliament 27th November 2017

Coming into force 19th December 2017

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2A(1) of the Civil Procedure Act 1997f1, with the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice in accordance with section 2A(2), and having consulted in accordance with section 2A(2A), of that Act, makes the following Order.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1997 c. 12. Section 2A was inserted by section 84 of the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), which was amended by section 15 of, and Schedule 4, paragraph 264 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4).

Contents

  1. 1Citation and Commencement
  2. 2Amendment of the 1997 Act
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and Commencement

This Order may be cited as the Civil Procedure Act 1997 (Amendment) Order 2017 and comes in to force on 19th December 2017.

2Amendment of the 1997 Act

In section 2(2) of the Civil Procedure Act 1997f1, after sub-paragraph (c) insert—

“(ca)

one person who is a judge of the Senior Courts, a Circuit judge or a district judge and who has particular experience of the law applicable in Wales,”.

Signature

Dominic Raab

Minister of State for Justice

Ministry of Justice

22nd November 2017

I concur

Sir Ian Burnett

Lord Chief Justice

26th October 2017

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends section 2(2) of the Civil Procedure Act 1997 (c.12) to permit the Lord Chief Justice to appoint to the Civil Procedure Rule Committee a person who is a judge of the Senior Courts, a Circuit judge or a district judge and who has particular experience of the law applicable in Wales.